Written by Mac Powell and produced by Third Day, it was released as the lead single from the band's 2008 album Revelation through Essential Records.

"Call My Name" has been considered a pop rock and "AC-friendly" song with a basic drum track and a "solid" melody.

Third Day has performed the song live and it has been covered by Australian country singer Keith Urban.

[2] Digital editing was conducted by Paul DeCarli, while audio engineering was handled by Ashburn Miller and Hatsukazu Inagaki.

[3] It was composed using common time in the key of E major, with "driving rock" tempo of 78 beats per minute.

[8] Russ Breimeier of Christianity Today regarded the song as a "big AC-friendly single"[7] and praised it as having "smart hooks, a strong melody, and some of Powell's most impressive vocal work to date during the closing vamp, belting out notes I didn't know he was capable of".

[1][24][25] Australian country singer Keith Urban covered the song, including it as a bonus track on his 2009 album Defying Gravity.

[27] At the benefit concert Nashville4Africa, held on April 4, 2009, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the band performed the song with fellow Christian rock artists Jars of Clay.

[28] On the 2010 Winter Jam tour, Third Day performed "Call My Name" as part of their set list on January 28 and 30.